i ate a kiwi this morning

it was a golden kiwi, i didn't know they existeds. it tasted like a cross between your typical green on the inside type kiwi, but with a pearish initial taste and skinz like a pear.

was in sydney for a few days a few days ago. it was fun, but don't feel much of a need to go back except for the food, which was very good. bit much of a city for vacation. i stayed in kings cross and got offered sex by strangers on the street many times and had drunken/druggeded people throwing their shit all over my shit every night. perhaps it was just the location of the hostel

im currently at the lantana hostel in auckland. auckland is awesome. ive been more or less aimlessly wanderingz around and having an actual vacation: eat, sleep, walk, read. besides attempting to get lost while walking, i haven't done much else other than hang out with the kids at the hostel. tomorrow morning i head off to coromandel penisula, which should provide much easier access to hikes/trails. i wanted to get out to rangitoto island, but its closed until the middle of augusts.

i hiked to the top of mt eden yesterday, its an old dormant volcano within auckland. the lightz made it difficult to get a good picture of the crater + the city, but heres a picture aimed a bit west of downtown: